Crimea left without power after explosions at transmission towers

• 9 years ago (2015-11-23)
• David Flin

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Police said that repairs to the towers had been completed on Saturday, but the towers were hit by further explosions early on Sunday morning.

Crimea receives the bulk of its electricity from Ukraine. Russia’s Energy Ministry said emergency electricity supplies had been mobilised for critical needs in Crimea, and that 13 mobile gas turbine generators were in use. The Ministry added that 1.6 million people out of a population of 2 million remained without power.

Ukraine’s Energy Minister Volodymyr Demchyshyn said four power lines had been damaged, and that two districts of Ukraine’s Kherson region were also left without power. A spokesman for the Ukraine police said that police have blocked off the area surrounding the damaged pylons to allow repairs to take place. The state-run energy firm Ukrenergo said that it hoped to restore all the damaged lines within four days.